The defendant's seven-month sentence for tax evasion which was 34 months less than the low end of the advisory sentencing guidelines range of 41-51 months, was unreasonably lenient. The offense was very serious, involving a six-year fraudulent scheme and over six million dollars in unreported income. The district court placed too much weight on the defendant's age and family circumstances. Although the defendant was 69 years old, he was an exception to statistics showing that recidivism declined with age, having begun his illegal activity at age 54, continuing with an intricate multi-million-dollar tax evasion scheme, and ending with a bad-faith bankruptcy filing in his late sixties, and the hardship to the defendant's wife caused by his incarceration was common to every married defendant's spouse.

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